A8 JOVIAN · PHYSICAL TELESCOPE WITNESS SEP 18 2026 · EPOCH-7 STATUS QUALIFIED JOVIAN TELESCOPE CROSS-CHECK PURPOSE Preserve a new physical observation of Jupiter and its visible Galilean moons under the current Epoch-7 physical chain. Two recordings have separate roles: 1. BRIGHT RECORDING Used to resolve and measure the visible moon pattern. 2. CROSSING RECORDING Used to preserve Jupiter crossing the detector centerline and associate that event with the live Epoch-7 physical RAW stream. Nature is the reference. The observation does not retune Jupiter, the Jovian recurrence, Core20, the physical carrier rate, or the public moon model. ============================================================ BRIGHT RECORDING ============================================================ SOURCE Kooha-2026-09-18-06-10-06.mkv SHA-256 a7e3c77e3b61958260ba19e150b8b020fb30393e0e3209cb0a703086cbfd6d3b VIDEO 1280 × 800 30 fps duration · approximately 41.4000 s Three satellite points remain coherent with Jupiter through aligned-frame analysis. SIGNED DETECTOR-AXIS POSITIONS relative to Jupiter: Callisto screen-left -128.43 px Io screen-right inner +164.39 px Europa screen-right outer +266.47 px The three measured points lie on the same Jovian satellite axis. Measured moon-axis angle +11.7398 degrees Off-axis residuals less than approximately 0.5 detector pixel Ganymede is not cleanly resolved in this bright exposure because the relevant region is strongly affected by Jupiter glare. The visible identities and ordering were checked against the Sky & Telescope Jupiter's Moons utility for the observation window. That comparison is EXTERNAL CROSS-CHECK ONLY. Sky & Telescope does not define the A8 Jovian ruler, physical RAW, phase, recurrence, or Core20 progression. REPRESENTATIVE PHYSICAL STATE PRIMARY SOURCE_EPOCH · 7 RAW_COUNT · 1,853,729 REPORT_SEQUENCE · 172,252 STATUS · ACTIVE GHOST RAW_COUNT · 1,841,616 SEQUENCE · 300,386 STATUS · ACTIVE ============================================================ CROSSING RECORDING ============================================================ SOURCE Kooha-2026-09-18-06-13-32.mkv SHA-256 f63b61ab2f73e58ec4937f8e85346960ecd1594f49405fd7c6acf55d9e9427fb VIDEO 1280 × 800 30 fps duration · approximately 34.1667 s DETECTOR GEOMETRY detector image horizontal extent approximately x = 65 .. 958 detector centerline approximately x = 511.5 Jupiter center: frame 445 x approximately 510.377 px frame 446 x approximately 512.638 px Estimated Jupiter detector-centerline crossing approximately 14.85 s into recording EPOCH-7 PHYSICAL CROSSING WITNESS PRIMARY visible physical RAW 1,859,821 simultaneous large RAW display 1,859,832 REPORT_SEQUENCE 172,818 STATUS ACTIVE Because the displays are asynchronous, this evidence preserves the physical centerline crossing as the observed RAW bracket: 1,859,821 .. 1,859,832 No single-count precision is claimed beyond the evidence actually visible in the recording. GHOST PHYSICAL WITNESS RAW_COUNT 1,847,730 SEQUENCE 302,267 STATUS ACTIVE ============================================================ NATURAL RULER ============================================================ The existing A8 Jovian natural ruler remains: Io : Europa : Ganymede 1 : 2 : 4 recurrence This observation is evidence against that existing ruler and model. It does not define or retune the ruler. Callisto remains the slower outer-envelope witness. ============================================================ RESULT ============================================================ PASS · Jupiter physically observed. PASS · three Galilean satellites independently resolved. PASS · observed satellite positions are collinear with Jupiter. PASS · visible moon identities: Callisto · screen-left Io · screen-right inner Europa · screen-right outer Ganymede · glare-limited / not cleanly resolved in this exposure. PASS · external Sky & Telescope comparison supports the observed moon ordering and identification. PASS · Epoch-7 detector-centerline RAW bracket preserved. PASS · Ghost simultaneously present as independent physical witness. NO JOVIAN RETUNE. NO CORE20 RETUNE. NO PHYSICAL RATE RETUNE. NO UTC / HOST / BROWSER TIME IS USED AS A8 AUTHORITY. The squirrels carry the baton. They do not run ahead of Nature. ============================================================ FEATURE IMAGE ============================================================ jupiter-sep18-a8-feature.png A8 DISPLAY STAMP 2026 · WEST · ☿ MERCURY · ▽ WATER A8 REF 16:22:13 EPOCH-7 IMAGE SHA-256 fde7551acd11ca93f6baf7d76b3912797c618902893905d39462b118fc5c8c8f PROCESS The feature image was produced from the two Sep-18 Jupiter telescope recordings by aligning frames on Jupiter, rejecting poor/smeared frames, preserving moon points that persist independently across both recordings, and using the sharpest frame subset for Jupiter disk detail. 2,133 aligned telescope frames contributed to the field stack. The sharpest 534 frames contributed to Jupiter disk detail. The image was converted to monochrome and given restrained contrast/sharpening for public viewing. No generated astronomical objects or synthetic moon positions were added. The A8 REF is a representative reference-frame stamp for the stacked observation and is not a claim that all contributing photons were recorded at one instant.